Psychometric Properties of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED): A Replication Study

Birmaher, Boris; Brent, David A.; Chiappetta, Laurel; Bridge, Jeffrey A.; Monga, Suneeta; Baugher, Marianne

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“…For the SCARED, it was a tested model including five correlated factors each representing the scales as originally suggested (Birmaher et al 1999). A model including four first-order factors and one second-order factor was tested for CASI-13 and CASI-18 (Silverman et al 2003).…”

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Childhood depression and anxiety disorders in Serbia: a psychometric study of four screening questionnaires

Stevanović¹

2011

Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci

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Childhood depression and anxiety disorders in Serbia: a psychometric study of four screening questionnaires

Stevanović¹

2011

Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci

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“…In the TreatChildTrauma subsample, anxiety symptoms were assessed using the German version of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) in the revised version [31]. The SCARED possesses good psychometric properties, e.g.…”

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Psychometric Properties of the German Version of the Child Post-Traumatic Cognitions Inventory (CPTCI-GER)

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Meiser‐Stedman

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Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

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Dysfunctional trauma-related cognitions are associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The psychometric properties of the German version of the Child Post-Traumatic Cognitions Inventory (CPTCI-GER) were assessed in a sample of 223 children and adolescents (7–16 years) with a history of different traumatic events. Confirmatory factor analyses supported the original two-factor structure—permanent and disturbing change (CPTCI-PC) and fragile person in a scary world (CPTCI-SW). The total scale and both subscales showed good internal consistency. Participants with PTSD had significantly more dysfunctional trauma-related cognitions than those without PTSD. Dysfunctional posttraumatic cognitions correlated significantly with posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS; r = .62), depression (r = .71), and anxiety (r = .67). The CPTCI-GER has good psychometric properties and may facilitate evaluation of treatments and further research on the function of trauma-related cognitions in children and adolescents. (Partial) correlations provide empirical support for the combined DSM-5 symptom cluster negative alterations in cognitions and mood

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“…The SCARED (Birmaher, Brent, Chiappetta, Bridge, Monga, et al, 1999;Birmaher, Khetarpal, Brent, Cully, Balach et al, 1997) is a 41-item self-report questionnaire that measures panic, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), separation anxiety, social anxiety, and school anxiety. In child clinical samples, child and parent versions of the SCARED correspond moderately (rs ranged from .20 to .47 and .22 to .39) and the scale has good internal consistency (Cronbach's α ranged from .74 to .89 and 78 to .87), testretest reliability was good (intraclass correlation coefficients ranged from .70 to .90 in the 1997 study), and consistently has a five factor structure (Birmaher et al, 1997(Birmaher et al, , 1999.…”

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The behavioral inhibition system and the verbal information pathway to children's fears.

Field

2006

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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The behavioral inhibition system (BIS) is the neurological substrate of trait anxiety and is linked to the development of anxiety disorders. Three experiments are reported that investigate the moderating influence of the BIS on one pathway to fear: threat information. In all studies, children were given verbal information about a set of novel animals and their BIS sensitivity was measured. The results suggest that BIS sensitivity (1) facilitates attentional biases to stimuli associated with threat information; and (2) facilitates behavioral avoidance of novel stimuli associated with threat information. This suggests a possible mechanism through which the behavioral inhibition system may promote the acquisition of animal fears. 3The Behavioral Inhibition System and the Verbal Information Pathway to Children's Fears Rachman (1977) proposed that fears could be acquired through three pathways: direct negative conditioning experiences, learning through observing others, and fear transmitted through verbal information. Retrospective studies have shown support for all three pathways (see King, Gullone & Ollendick, 1998;Merckelbach, De Jong, Muris & van den Hout, 1996 for reviews), however, the information pathway remains the least experimentally studied. AlthoughRachman did not formalize a mechanism through which fear information would have an effect, modern theories of fear development are intrinsically linked to the verbal information pathway.Davey (1997) has pointed out that there are two roles for moderating factors in conditioning models of fear acquisition. The first is through creating expectancies about the likely outcome of an encounter with a conditioned stimulus, CS (expectancy evaluations). The second is through moderating the aversiveness of the unconditioned stimulus (US) or US representation (US Revaluation processes). Threat information could affect both processes by (1) creating expectancies or beliefs about likely outcomes of subsequent conditioning episodes and (2) by revaluing a previously innocuous experience such that its mental representation comes to act as a negative US. In terms of expectancy evaluations, Davey (1997) noted a body of conditioning research suggesting that the core CS-US association driving acquired fear responses in humans is influenced by existing beliefs about the likely outcome of interacting with the CS. For example, a child believing that a dog will bite her who is subsequently bitten will have a stronger dogtrauma association than a child for whom the bite conflicts with their prior assumptions (see Field, in press).Although retrospective studies have shown that threat information contributes to the development of fears, these reports will be prone to memory bias and forgetting of potentially important learning episodes (see King, Gullone & Ollendick, 1998;Merckelbach, De Jong, Muris & Van den Hout, 1996 for reviews). Field, Argyris & Knowles (2001) have developed an experimental paradigm for looking at the effects of fear information in the development of ani...

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Psychometric Properties of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED): A Replication Study

Cited by 1,909 publications

References 26 publications

Childhood depression and anxiety disorders in Serbia: a psychometric study of four screening questionnaires

Childhood depression and anxiety disorders in Serbia: a psychometric study of four screening questionnaires

Psychometric Properties of the German Version of the Child Post-Traumatic Cognitions Inventory (CPTCI-GER)

The behavioral inhibition system and the verbal information pathway to children's fears.

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